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Taken the decs down yet?

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Teetime Sun 28-Dec-14 10:34:21

Anyone like me desperate to take down the Christmas decorations and get back to normal?

Lona Sun 28-Dec-14 10:37:11

YES!! I've been thinking about it since I got up today.
I will if you will grin

Grannyknot Sun 28-Dec-14 10:37:48

Yes. I'm itching to do so. Funny how quickly they just look sad and even tatty. I want to sweep and dust!

merlotgran Sun 28-Dec-14 10:48:09

We don't put ours up early so they still look OK. I usually take them down NY Day.

Liz46 Sun 28-Dec-14 10:58:54

I didn't bother to put any up. I would have done if the gc were coming here but we went to their house for Christmas. I did blu tak the cards to the doors but they will be coming down when my eldest daughter goes home tomorrow.

Agus Sun 28-Dec-14 11:00:05

I only put them up last Tuesday but they are coming down tomorrow. grin

henetha Sun 28-Dec-14 11:00:46

I didn't put any up either. First time ever. Mixed reasons.

Teetime Sun 28-Dec-14 11:04:26

I've taken down the cards (ready to put in the recycle box at Sainsbury)and a few other things may come down by stealth. The plan is to take them down New Years Day but if there is no golf tomorrow I may need a frenetic activity to replace it before the weigh in at Slimming World tomorrow night. we are having our Christmas turkey dinner today so I suppose I should leave them up for that so I'm doing other housework instead. would love to get it all down this afternoon though.

chloe1984 Sun 28-Dec-14 11:07:59

Christmas decorations coming down as we speak will just leave the wreath on the front door . Oh the dust that has been revealed.

Riverwalk Sun 28-Dec-14 11:49:26

Tree, lights & cards will be staying up for the coming week - my grandchildren are arriving today from Somerset for Xmas with grandma tchsmile

Ex-husband is bringing them!

We will all have a lovely family lunch, then it'll be fun out and about with GC for the next five days.

felice Sun 28-Dec-14 11:54:37

Mine will come down on the 6th of january, but many people here leave them until the 2nd of february, cannot remember the reason.

Teetime Sun 28-Dec-14 12:07:19

Heavens I would be crawling the walls by then.

janeainsworth Sun 28-Dec-14 12:30:05

Nooooo! tchshock
We only put ours up a few days before Christmas and they stay firmly in place till Twelfth Night!

rockgran Sun 28-Dec-14 12:33:07

Have just had a tidy up and removed the stuff that is too Christmassy. However i like to leave the tree and wreath until New Year - then i cant get rid of stuff fast enough! It suddenly looks sad and tatty in the bright sunlight.

sunseeker Sun 28-Dec-14 12:41:11

Only put them up weekend before Christmas, will take them down 12th night.

Marmight Sun 28-Dec-14 13:17:15

Good heavens no! Christmas is not over until the Twelfth Night. It just wouldn't seem right to remove them now tchshock

Brendawymms Sun 28-Dec-14 13:23:34

Xmas tree is back outside, it's a living one, other decorations still around. Saying that there is very little.

jinglbellsfrocks Sun 28-Dec-14 13:29:33

No!!! Grandsons leave tomorrow, but Christmas remains. Plenty of enjoyment left in it yet, I would say.! tchsmile

(am determined NOT to get sad about them going --tchsad--)

jinglbellsfrocks Sun 28-Dec-14 13:30:15

(that emoticon stuff was never going to work, was it? tchhmm)

mcem Sun 28-Dec-14 13:30:31

Tree and dec's up on first Sunday in Advent and down on 12th Night! Still look fine to me.

thatbags Sun 28-Dec-14 13:52:11

Apart from a small tree decorated with shells, I didn't put any decs up. Neither did anyone else who lives here. We still had a lovely day and we are still eating the gingerbread house. Perhaps I shall eat the small xmas cake that Minibags made at school some time near the beginning of January. I chose that phrase "near the beginning of January" deliberately because, in cosmic terms, the new year has already begun smile

(no-one else will eat xmas cake; just thought I'd mention that so yous don't think I'm greedy)

goldengirl Sun 28-Dec-14 15:00:46

Roll on 2 January! Mind you we leave some fairy lights in the kitchen to help me with SAD

ninathenana Sun 28-Dec-14 15:02:14

Family are coming for lunch N Y D they will come down the day after.

numberplease Sun 28-Dec-14 20:32:30

No, they`re not coming down till 12th night, they only went up a week before Christmas, and they make the room look so much brighter. I hate how drab everything looks for the first few hours after they come down.

apricot Sun 28-Dec-14 20:49:08

Mine only went up a few days before Christmas but are all fresh greenery and the holly berries are drying up already. I may have to put up a new lot for my birthday party. They can't be done away with until Twelfth Night.